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Health Promoting Department


Modern Languages Department’s contribution to Health promoting school

The ML courses address a broad spectrum of physical, emotional and mental health issues as well as issues affecting the well-being of the individual in society. The complexity of the issues addressed develops over the years to a highly sophisticated level at Advanced Higher.

Primary 6

  • Common foods and drinks
  • Healthy options
  • Ordering from a menu
Primary 7

  • Parts of the body
  • Sports and games
  • Illness
  • Talking about feelings
  • Project linked with environmental studies
S1

  • Healthy snacks and healthy food in general
  • Sports
  • Hobbies
S2

  • Daily routine
  • Personal hygiene
  • Household tasks (keeping the home and your room clean and tidy)
  • Parts of bodies
  • Illnesses
  • A visit to the doctor
  • Keeping fit
  • Activity weeks
  • Healthy meals (Mediterranean diet)
  • Shopping for fruit and veg at the market
  • Going out with friends
S3 + S4 (Standard grade course)

  • Food and prices
  • Household tasks (personal responsibilities)
  • Earning pocket money
  • Spending and saving pocket money
  • Managing money
  • Healthy relationships and personalities
  • Daily routine and daily life at school
  • Planning your future
  • Events and activities
  • Public transport
  • Researching holidays
  • Holiday activities
  • Complaining effectively
  • Eating out and ordering food
  • Explanations and excuses
  • Illness and injuries
  • Healthy eating at home
  • Healthy lifestyle (diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, drugs)
  • Fitness
  • Visiting the doctor
  • Accidents and breakdowns
  • Teenage problems
  • Travel and holidays
  • Career plans
  • Work experience
  • Looking for a job
  • CV
  • Work-related issues
  • Environmental issues
  • Saving the environment
S5/S6 (Int 2/Higher/Advanced Higher)

  • Leisure interests and sports
  • Healthy living: diet, smoking, alcohol and alcohol abuse, drugs and AIDS
  • Relationships: family, friends, family breakdown
  • Relationships: marriage, divorce, living with a partner, sexual health
  • Adulthood
  • Bullying
  • Immigration and Racism
  • Refugees
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Peer pressure
  • Stress
  • Assertiveness
  • Attitudes towards money
  • Future plans
  • Careers
  • Training and apprenticeship
  • Interviews
  • Living away from home
  • Homelessness
  • Equal rights + Sexual equality
  • Using computers health issues
  • Influence of the media
  • Third World issues
  • Nuclear power and nuclear waste
  • Dealing with waste
  • Recycling
  • Climate and climate change
  • Citizenship
  • Religion and superstition
  • Animal rights
  • Modern day slavery
  • Violence
  • Young people and the law
  • Crime and punishment
  • Scientific and medical research (e.g. human cloning)
  • Human rights (e.g. abortion)
  • Technological progress
  • Different Types Of Food Poisoning Signs